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From this he carefully withdrew a paper, folded lengthwise, and, opening it, read: "`Latichood: Two, forty-eight, forty; south. Longitood: One hundred and forty-four, ten, ten; west. Approach island from nor'-west, and stand towards it with summit of hill bearin' south-east half-south, which leads through the passage in the barrier reef.
"As for me, I've learned what was required to enable me to get my certificate; but, after all, I don't really understand it properly. I can take the sun at noon, of course, and work out the ship's latitood; but, even at that, I've got no very great faith in myself; and as to the longitood well, there; I always feels that I may be right or I may be wrong. I never was much of a hand at figures.
Puna Punou lies in 14th South exactly, though the writer keeps back the longitood for reasons that will soon be understood by the gentle reader if the gentle reader is patient and won't skip.
"It's nigh on to fifteen year ago," said Silas, "that I was on the bark Mary Auguster, bound for Sydney, New South Wales, with a cargo of canned goods. We was somewhere about longitood a hundred an' seventy, latitood nothin', an' it was the twenty-second o' December, when we was ketched by a reg'lar typhoon which blew straight along, end on, fur a day an' a half. It blew away the storm-sails.
"Later on, that same day, Turnbull 'as the mate out into the main cabin and spreads a chart of the Pacific Hocean out on the table; and, readin' from a paper what 'e 'ad in 'is 'and, says, `Now, Mr Marshall, I'll trouble you to lay down on this 'ere chart a p'int bearin' latitood so-and-so and longitood so-and-so, I forgets what the figures was. `And when you've done that, he says, `you'll navigate this 'ere barque to that identical spot.
But, of course, he'll have to know whereabouts it is afore he can navigate the ship to it; and now that your pore father's um no longer aboard, I reckon that you're the only one who can say what's the latitood and longitood of it." "But that's just what I can't do, bosun," answered Billy. "I know what the latitude of it is, but the longitude's another matter.
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